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Sunday, 26 March 2017

Antonius Wierix’s engraving, “Jonah cast on shore by the fish”, 1585

Antonius Wierix (1555/1559–1604)

“Jonah cast on
shore by the fish”, 1585, from a series of four plates (by the Wierix family) after
Maarten de Vos (1532–1603),
published by Gerard de Jode (1516/17–1591)
in “Thesaurus Sacrarum Historiarum veteris testamenti, elegantissimis
imaginabus expressum excellentissimorum in hac arte virorum opera: nunc primum
in lucem editus” (Treasure holy history of the Old Testament elegant imaginabor
expressed in this excellent works of art, now for the first time to light). The
curator of the BM advises that the related drawings for the four plates are in
the Musée du Louvre, Paris (Lugt 1968, 401-402).

Engraving with
margins on fine laid paper lined on a conservator’s support sheet

Condition:
crisp and well-printed impression with margins and laid onto a conservator’s
support sheet. There is a central crease mark and flattened fold marks at the
upper right corner. There are also small
losses and repaired tears in the margins.

I am selling this
exceptionally rare engraving by arguably the most famous of the Wierix family
of engravers for the total cost of AU$378 (currently US$288.11/EUR266.91/GBP230.96
at the time of posting this listing) including postage and handling to anywhere
in the world.

If you are
interested in purchasing this visually riveting print, please contact me
(oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make
the payment easy.

This print has been sold

For those
unfamiliar with the story of Jonah, be advised that the Latin text lettered
below the image may be unhelpful and misleading if one copies it into Google Translate:
“'Virus has been absorbed dark throat assembly is returned to the earth which
are now prey.” I must admit that I thought Jonah was swallowed by a whale
rather than a “fish” but after consulting biserica.org I found the relevant
text in “Iona” (Jonah) (chapter 2), “Prayer for deliverance of Jonah” with no
mention of a whale, again based on Google’s translation:

“1. God has
commanded a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the
fish three days and three nights.

2. Where the
fish's belly Jonah prayed to the Lord his God, saying:

3. "I
Called Lord in my distress, and he heard me; out of the belly of Sheol I cried
to him, and he hearkened to my voice!